Discussion

Wow. PayPal attracted a lot of progressive folks. I remember reading about Peter Thiel and the “governance industry.” Peter Thiel is invested in The Seasteading Institute, best captured by VentureBeat:

“According to Patri Friedman, TSI’s founder, the problem with what he calls the “governing industry,” is that it has a “high barrier to entry and high customer lock in.” There are immense financial and personal costs involved in abandoning your nation of origin and transferring your citizenship. To Friedman, these costs are an obstruction to human freedom. The solution? Highly rugged, modular constructions that make it easy to attach your home to your micro-nation of choice but just as easy to detach it and move away. Since every square inch of land on the Earth is claimed, the only place to put these things is the ocean.”